| 词条 | Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election |
| 释义 |
| name = Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election | image = Unprecedented- The 2000 Presidential Election poster.jpg | caption = | director = Richard Ray Pérez Joan Sekler | producer = Richard Ray Pérez Joan Sekler | writer = William Haugse Richard Ray Pérez Joan Sekler | starring = Danny Glover (2004) | narrator =Peter Coyote | music =Bobby Johnston | cinematography = Richard Ray Pérez | editing = William Haugse Matthew Martin | distributor = Shout! Factory | released = September 17, 2002 (U.S. premiere) | runtime = 47 min. (2002) 57 min. (2004) | language = English | budget = }}Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is a 2002 47-minute documentary directed and co-written by Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler,[1] and narrated by Peter Coyote,[2] about the contested 2000 presidential election in Florida.[3] It was re-released in an extended 56-minute[4] 2004 Campaign Edition presented by Danny Glover to tie in with the 2004 US presidential election.[5] A Public Interest Pictures Film, it was co-executive produced by Robert Greenwald and Earl Katz..[1] Greenwald later made this the first of his "Un-Trilogy", which also includes The War on Iraq and The War on Our Civil Liberties.[6] SynopsisUnprecedented chronicles irregularities in the 2000 US presidential election in the swing state of Florida.[3]The film begins with claims that African Americans and other likely Democratic voters were disenfranchised by a resurrected 1868 law that prevented felons from voting. [7] This law was originally intended to keep blacks from the polls, in the wake of the Civil War.[8] In 2000, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris used the original law to create a computerized list of supposed ex-cons. The list had the vaguest parameters, and included as many as 57,000 to 91,000 non-felons, who were overwhelmingly people of color.[5] On election day, these people were turned away at the polls.[4] Since 90% of African Americans vote Democratic, this effectively reduced the number of votes for Democratic candidate Al Gore.[5] Unprecedented also examines the Florida recount and the hanging chad controversy.[4] It faults Gore for demanding a recount of only certain counties, instead of the whole state;[2] and also presents evidence that the Republican Party paid staffers to create a disturbance and end the recount prematurely.[7]The film then takes aim at the December 2000 Supreme Court decision that gave George W. Bush the presidency.[4] The film documents conflicts of interest that should have resulted in the recusal of two of the SCOTUS justices.[7] Finally, it explores the problems with electronic voting machines.[5] It argues that the companies that make these machines do not allow audits of the machines (allegedly because of copyright and trademark issues), which leaves them wide open for fraud.[4] The machines also do not give paper receipts, so there is no physical evidence in case of the need for a recount.[7] DistributionIn the festival circuit, the film won eleven awards, including the Grand Festival award at the Berkley Film and Video Festival; the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, and the Director's Award at the New York International Film Festival.[5] It enjoyed a limited theatrical release[8] and was broadcast internationally on cable.[9] The DVD sold extremely well on Amazon.com, coming in at 68 on their 2004 sales rank.[8] Liberal advocacy group MoveOn sold 25,000 copies in three days.[10] Unprecedented was also viewed at screenings in homes and communities across the country, and was available streaming on the Internet.[10] This multi-tiered distribution model was revolutionary at the time. Executive Producer Robert Greenwald called it a "breakthrough", and has honed it in his subsequent films.[10] Unprecedented is said to have "jumpstarted" Greenwald's documentary filmmaking career.[8]After this film, Sekler went on to produce A Mix-Tape from St. Paul, RNC '08, a documentary about the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web | last= Klein| first= Andy| title=Review:'Unprecedented the 2000 Presidential Election' | publisher= Unprecedented | date= November 24, 2002 | url= https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/unprecedented-the-2000-presidential-election-1200544683/ | accessdate= }} 2. ^1 {{cite web | last= Rosenbaum | first= Jonothan | title=Unpredented: The 2000 Presidential Election | publisher= The Chicago Reader | date= | url= http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/unprecedented-the-2000-presidential-election/Film?oid=1062179| accessdate= }} 3. ^1 {{cite web | last= Roten | first= Robert | title= Laramie Movie Review: Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election | publisher= Laramie Movie Review | date= October 27, 2004 | url=http://www.lariat.org/atthemovies/new/flavote.html | accessdate= }} 4. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | last= | first= | title= Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: Another Civics Lesson from Greenwald; Did the US Experience a Coup? | publisher= Bills Media Reviews | date= February 11, 2014| url= http://billsmediareviews.com/?p=134| accessdate= }} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book | last1 = Benson | first1= Thomas | last2= Snee | first2= Brian | title= The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary | publisher= Southern Illinois University | date= 2008 | url= | accessdate= }} 6. ^{{cite web | last= Nichols | first=John | title= Filmmaker Takes Fox News to Task| publisher= Capital Times| date= September 16, 2004 | url= http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0916-02.html | accessdate= }} 7. ^1 2 3 {{cite web | last= Burr | first=Ty | title= Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election| publisher=Boston Globe | date= October 31, 2003 | url= http://www.unprecedented.org/Unprecedented_Boston_Globe.html | accessdate= }} 8. ^1 2 3 {{cite book | last=Rampell | first= Ed| title=Progressive Hollywood | publisher= The Disinformation Company Ltd. | date=2005 | url= | accessdate= }} 9. ^{{cite web | last= | first= | title= | publisher=Unprecedented.org | date= | url= http://www.unprecedented.org/UnprecedentedBroadcast.htm | accessdate= }} 10. ^1 2 {{cite web | last=Thompson | first= Rustin| title=Robert Greenwald | publisher=MovieMaker | date= September 23, 2004 | url= http://www.moviemaker.com/articles-directing/robert-greenwald-2919/ | accessdate= }} External links
3 : English-language films|Documentary films about elections in the United States|Films about the 2000 United States presidential election |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。